It is proper that we should progress in the so-called “developed” countries, we can expect to improve the overall health of the community. Patients who expect ill access to the wisdom and techniques of modern medical science, it provides relief and also have a cure.
This is not the case and it was in the growing need for clear public hospitals, new drugs, clinical treatment for addiction, mental illness and a host of additional diseases that are identified in the last decades and usually by the modern system in the first line by using drugs and surgery treatment.
Iatrogenic is a term that is well known is that in recent decades that the statistics are accurately recording emphasize the mistakes of doctors and surgeons, physicians in medical practice and no doubt try to responsibility.
Iatrogenic causes of death in the U.S. – Dr. Barbara Starfield reported by the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore – in the Journal of American Medical Association, Vol 284 26th July May 2000 gives, in his article “Death by iatrogenic causes,” the following …..
It is now that observed in terms of deaths per year in the U.S. -
12 000 unnecessary surgery attributed
7000 to medication errors in hospitals
20,000 in other hospital errors
80 000 infections in hospitals
106 000 adverse drug reactions from apparently managed appropriately
There is a change in the final estimates range 230000-284000 cases of iatrogenic factors such as mortality. This is made more difficult because of the often complex causes of death. Dr. Starfield comparison, that “only 60,000 Americans lost their lives during the Vietnam war .”…. draws attention to the seriousness of the situation.
The figures show that functional heart disease and cancer than play the two leading causes of death in the community with iatrogenic deaths after the third place with drugs an important role.
With full concentration on the health system really precarious for many deaths of patients instead of healing after admission to hospital – there are other statistics that have been created to show negative patients experience in ambulatory …
116 million “extra doctor visits – 77 million extra prescriptions 17 million emergency room visits -. 8 million hospitalizations, 3 million admissions to long term, they represent additional 199 000 deaths and 77 billion U.S. dollars estimated additional cost to the nation.
How to compare other nations? Well, take in a recent comparison in a project involving 13 countries, the United States second to less than 16 specific indicators of health. This poor record was a study by the World Health Organisation that uses different data and ranked the United States as the 15th been confirmed among the 25 industrialized countries. Japan was considered the highest quality health care and is to be noted that home care is the traditional way to cope with the disease in this country.
We are of course the current system of modern medicine in western countries, including Australia, where she observed that many problems could be avoided in hospitals, where doctors and nurses were busy in washing his hands between patients was disappointed!
What happened to the training of basic health, hygiene and preventive medicine?
Sally Wilson holds a philosophy that nature seems to be the highest intelligence that leads us toward health and happiness to learn that we live according to natural laws.
Our interests and studies of all natural sciences provide us with opportunities for obtaining knowledge, but it is our choice or action, which we can apply what we learn in a positive way in nursing personal and self-discipline and care for our children and families.
Health and Healing receive the focus of his writings to explore as well as a number of issues openly in order to enhance others well being and also help us to avoid many health problems we face as we receive the error and the causes of the disease in the community be identified.
